Karma Strikes Candy Crush Developer

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28 Mar 2014, 10:11 pm

Apparently King went public and put themselves on the New York Stock Exchange. It didn't go well.
They lost over a billion or so in money.
That's what you get for malpractice in business. First they trademark a common word and now it was only a matter of time.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/king-di ... on-dollars
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/26/king-ipo-2/

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29 Mar 2014, 8:11 am

What caused this? Candy Crush is such a great business model.

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31 Mar 2014, 12:23 pm

Serves them right for trying to copyright the word "candy". Karma strikes when you least expect it. :lol: I do think Candy Crush Saga is a good example of how to make a free to play puzzle game. It's probably a little too generous to those who play it, but it constantly receives new stages, among other content. However, if King can copyright "candy", I'm off to copyright the word "the". :wink:

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22 Apr 2014, 9:22 pm

Don't forget Subway trying to trademark "Footlong"

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